This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.
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Visual Population Codes
- 632 pages
- 23 hours of reading
How visual content is represented in neuronal population codes and how to analyze such codes with multivariate techniques.
CODE
- 357 pages
- 13 hours of reading
How open source creative collaboration provides an alternative to commercially driven policies determining intellectual property rights.
Advanced Structured Prediction
- 415 pages
- 15 hours of reading
An overview of recent work in the field of structured prediction, the building of predictive machine learning models for interrelated and dependent outputs.
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Being Material
- 210 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.
The Place of Landscape
- 369 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.
Rock My Religion
- 348 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.
An examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics-from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia-and the resulting activism in those states.
Understanding Knowledge as a Commons
- 381 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age.